Vanessa Kirby Quotes

Telling women's stories is really important.

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.